"An another toddler quality - it's all about me, it's all about her, never considers us, ask, ask, ask. So the toddler thing was a big inspiration."

Inspired by her daughter: Helena Bonham Carter

Burton's interpretation of Lewis Caroll's books, which sees a 19-year-old Alice return to Wonderland to find it under the rule of the Red Queen, is a Disney production rated PG, but has the director's usually dark twist to the tale.However, the cast insist their children were delighted by the adventure.

Johnny Depp, who stars as The Mad Hatter and is father to ten-year-old Lily-Rose and seven-year-old Jack with girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, said: "My kids actually saw the film, because I send them out there on the frontlines. They saw it and loved it and went crazy for it, quoting things from it and thought it was amazing - loved every character, and weren't freaked out by it at all."

Bonham Carter revealed: "We have two children. We have two-year-old Nell, and she's up for anything.

"Today she was watching her daddy do breakfast television and sadly she wasn't that interested in seeing Daddy, she just really wanted to see the monsters again, when she saw the Alice clips.